It started the other week in Aberdeen at Club snafu – what a great club, it goes nuts in there! We weren’t going to play Tupac Robot Club Rock but people kept singing it between songs and some girls stole my set list from the stage and retuned it a couple of minutes later with TUPAC ROBOT CLUB ROCK scrawled across the bottom. We played a sort of punk version as an encore, amazing night to kick off the tour. Flew to Berlin very early the next morning to go and do some interviews and DJ. Every time I go to Berlin I want to move there - one of the best cities in the world. Saturday, we flew back to Scotland, this time to Glasgow to play the Arches with Brodinski and Disco Blood Bath. Crazy crowd, such a mixture of people, from hard looking blokes with their tops off, to old goths and club kids to fashion students and groups of girls in short skirts. Love it, love Scotland, always have the most up for it crowds.

Back to London and another busy week with a show at the Lexington with Plugs. It was so good to play to a London crowd on a Tuesday and get everyone dancing, we seem to actually have fans! Strange but great ! Thursday we played the NME awards after show at Matter. Splendid gig and we got to see the Cure first!

We played the Deaf Institute on Friday at a night called Hot Club with Golden Silvers. Amazing night with great promoters, the venue is stunning and Golden Silvers were ace. We were all need of proper food and some fresh air after the last couple of weeks, as we were beginning to feel like a nocturnal music machine, so we stopped off on Snakes Pass for a proper pub lunch and a walk along the river – how very civilised. Snakes Pass has also got to be the best name of any road in England, its like we have entered middle earth. Luckily no dark riders about.
 
Back on the road to Nottingham but feeling good, always had ok gigs in Nottingham never been great so determined to change that. Marina & The Diamonds played before us. Blown away! She is seriously talented. The Diamonds are good too! The also have a better rider than us, it has carrot cake on it, whereasours is very much booze based. Gonna work on that. Tim and I decided a bottle of wine and a bottle of champagne before we go on the stage would be a good idea – turns out we were right, off the scale good, thank you Nottingham for an amazing show.

Our album Nonsense in the Dark is out in a couple of weeks so we have started to get some reviews in. They had all been really good so we have been feeling rather elated and invincible. Not sure how you find out about these things before they happen but we are about to get a really bad review in the NME. Tried to brush it off and act as if it really doesn’t matter, but when you have spent a year and half making an album it really stings. I haven’t even read it and have been analysing it to death.

Went out to the opening of a great new bar/club/gallery called Queen Of Hoxton on Curtain road last night. Played some records alongside Henry Holland, David E Sugar and Kate Moross and mixed my drinks like a crazy man, probably in slight reaction to that review. Have spent the morning in my pants buying records on Beatport and it has helped my mood no end. Still hungover like a dog but the grey cloud has been lifted. It's like that episode in Sex In The City, where they have the revelation that if a guy doesn’t call you back after a date, “he’s just not that into you.” No need to analyse the situation any further, he’s just not into you. That reviewer was just not that into our record. No need to analyse it, he just wasn’t into it, end of story. Our relationship would never have worked out. 

Of all the records I brought this morning Moha Das – Oh Yes is the best. I love housey techno records with an off-kilter spoken word bit. Looking forward to playing it at Fabric on Friday. Its our album launch at Fabric with Digitalism, Zombie Nation, In Flagranti, The Chap, Magistrates, Delphic, Breakbot, Drop The Lime, Stopmakingme and loads more – I am a little giddy with excitement. Will be feeling awful on Saturday but we are playing live in a little theater in Paris, then playing an afterparty for Jeremy Scott as it's Paris fashion week, so wont have time to feel the pain. Should be a fun party, apparently Kanye West might DJ too…haha I bet everyone says that about their parties. Anyway would be utterly weird to meet him so fingers crossed.

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